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The 9×19mm Parabellum (also known as 9mm Luger, 9mm NATO or simply 9mm) is a rimless, centerfire, tapered firearms cartridge. Originally designed by Austrian firearm designer Georg Luger in 1901, [ 6 ] it is widely considered the most popular handgun and submachine gun cartridge due to its low cost, adequate stopping power and extensive ...
The 7.65×21mm Parabellum (designated as the 7,65 Parabellum by the C.I.P. [3] and also known as .30 Luger and 7.65mm Luger) is a rimless, bottleneck, centerfire pistol cartridge that was introduced in 1898 by German arms manufacturer Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) for their new Pistol Parabellum.
Georg Luger was born in Steinach am Brenner, Tyrol to Dr. Bartholomaeus von Luger, a surgeon. After Georg's birth, his family moved to Italy, where Dr. Luger taught at the University of Padua . Georg grew up with Italian as his second mother tongue and finished Grundschule ( primary school ) and Gymnasium ( university-preparatory school ) in ...
Luger toggle-lock action Cutaway drawing of the Luger pistol from Georg Luger's 1908 9mm patent. Toggle-lock action with the knee joint bent upwards. The Luger has a toggle-lock action that uses a jointed arm to lock, as opposed to the slide actions of many other semi-automatic pistols, such as the M1911. After a round is fired, the barrel and ...
It was intended to replace the comparatively complex and expensive to produce Luger P08. Moving the production lines to the more easily mass producible P38 once World War II started took longer than expected, leading to the P08 remaining in production until September 1942 and copies remained in service until the end of the war.
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
World War II manufactured cartridges with a single "4" as the year of production were made in 1944. The demand was so great for cartridges that most manufacturers just ground off the "3" on the "43" stamp to save time. Most wartime plants were closed by the end of the war. Some cartridges with a single "5" were made in 1955.
Luger pistol (The most common sidearm used by front-line troops. 8,000 acquired in the 1920s) [122] [123] Lahti L-35 (Adopted in 1935. Approx. 5700 produced by 1945) [122] [123] [124] Pistole vz. 24 (3,285 bought from Germany, they arrived in September of 1940. Issued mainly to Finnish front-line troops during Continuation War) [125]